The latest in The Atlantic's wonderful In Focus photo essay series explores the lost communities around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was the site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when it was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. A 20-kilometer exclusion zone set around the facility remains in place, and last month Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj joined a group of residents visiting their lost homes to capture the state of the largely-abandoned area. Even after just two years, the images are all-too-similar to the ghostly shots from Chernobyl.
Images of evacuated Fukushima communities reminiscent of Chernobyl
Images of evacuated Fukushima communities reminiscent of Chernobyl
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